Filed in archive Application Development by jason on September 30, 2005

The strangest news I've heard in a while was that Microsoft and JBoss agreed to collaborate in the development of future products. According to CNET they will still compete against each other in t...

Three Good Mashup Sites

Filed in archive Application Development by jason on September 28, 2005

I'm very interested in the new trend happening with Web Services. I've been digging around to find more information about this stuff and I found the following three sites: Web API Tracker ...

Google's 80-20 Rule

Filed in archive E-Commerce by jason on September 27, 2005

I'm sitting down to write this article with a number of unrelated threads running through my brain. One of them is about a good friend of mine telling me that I should start my articles with the p...

Opportunities Abound

Filed in archive Web Services by jason on September 25, 2005

I read a lot of news articles about the industry I work in everyday. So much so that recently I thought I was caught up on all the current trends. Well this morning I was searching for something on th...

AJAX BUZZ

Filed in archive Application Development by jason on September 24, 2005

AJAX, the web development technique and not the cleaning product, has been getting so much buzz for the past few months. Now I'm also seeing it mentioned in discussions about Web 2.0 as if it is ...

A Future Through Hacking

Filed in archive Web Services by jason on September 22, 2005

One person I really enjoy reading and listening to is Tim O'Reilly (podcasts here and here). He has some really interesting ideas about where we have been and where we are going on the Internet. T...

Web Service Developers are Making Money

Filed in archive Web Services by jason on September 21, 2005

There are a number of Web Services APIs out there now on the web for use by entrepreneurial developers. The first three that readily come to mind are EBay, Amazon and Google. With these APIs any devel...

IS RUBY ON RAILS FOR REAL

Filed in archive Application Development by jason on September 19, 2005

I keep reading about the relatively new language Ruby and its web framework Rails but I haven't felt compelled to try it out. However, after reading David Geary's recent post titled Tipping Ra...

THE NEXT WAVE

Filed in archive Service Oriented Architectures by jason on September 18, 2005

I have a friend who is constantly wondering what the "next wave" in the Information Technology industry is going to be. I'm assuming he is waiting for the next big thing to come along th...

Providing Content for Mobile Devices

Filed in archive Mobile Devices by jason on September 15, 2005

This morning I listened to a very interesting podcast from ITconversations entitled Mobile Computing on the Edge. It was a presentation by Jon Bostrom who is the Senior Director, Java in Technology P...

Connecting the Pieces with SOA

Filed in archive Service Oriented Architectures by jason on September 14, 2005

Over the years I've attended a number of different meetings held by consultants and executives in which they explained the need to bring different technology platforms together. Many of these dis...

LEARN BY DOING

Filed in archive Security by jason on September 12, 2005

When developers are writing code the idea of protecting the web applications they are creating is not foremost in their minds. One reason is that the majority of software developers don't really...

A CERTIFICATE THAT MATTERS?

Filed in archive Application Development by jason on September 11, 2005

One thing I've always had a problem with is figuring out who really has their stuff together as far as skills go. When I interview someone the fact that they have a Sun Certification in Java mea...

About Me

Filed in archive Basics by jason on September 10, 2005

Welcome to the Java Entrepreneur Weblog that is written by Jason Darrow. The focus of this WebLog is to help a new or existing business solve problems by using Java. In addition I will talk about ap...